Money. The ultimate motivation. The ultimate way of keeping score.
Michael ConnellyTag: money success wealth greed materialism
You can never have too much money.
Jess C. ScottTag: money rich greed materialism poor lottery-tickets money-issues lottery materialism-versus-spiritualism money-not-happiness
It is easier for one to take risks and to chase his dreams with a mindset that he has nothing to lose. In this lies the immense passion, the great advantage of avoiding a materialistic, pleasure-filled way of life.
Criss JamiTag: success passion dreams courage pleasure perseverance failure materialism risks advantage mindset way-of-life lifestyles chasing-dreams nothing-to-lose
The minute you hear a sermon on materialism, you're glad somebody else is there to hear it.
Paul David TrippTag: materialism idolatry
To have so little, and it of so little value, was to be quaintly free.
Wallace StegnerTag: freedom materialism possessions
The materialist is sure that history has been simply and solely a chain of causation, just as the [lunatic] is quite sure that he is simply and solely a chicken. Materialists and madmen never have doubts.
G.K. ChestertonTag: insanity materialism
Constantly exposing yourself to popular culture and the mass media will ultimately shape your reality tunnel in ways that are not necessarily conducive to achieving your Soul Purpose and Life Calling. Modern society has generally ‘lost the plot’. Slavishly following its false gods and idols makes no sense in a spiritually aware life.
Anthon St. MaartenTag: society cynicism ignorance skepticism materialism public-opinion modern-society mass-media popular-culture idols superficiality false-belief disinformation misinformation society-s-increasing-stupidity negativity media-bias life-purpose reality-creation negative-attitude negative-people soul-purpose false-gods life-calling reality-tunnel
The man who cannot believe his senses, and the man who cannot believe anything else, are both insane, but their insanity is proved not by any error in their argument, but by the manifest mistake of their whole lives. They have both locked themselves up in two boxes, painted inside with the sun and stars; they are both unable to get out, the one into the health and happiness of heaven, the other even into the health and happiness of the earth.
G.K. ChestertonTag: logic materialism mysticism
Their constant outward-looking, their mania for radios, cars, and a thousand other trinkets made them dream and fix their eyes upon the trash of life, made it impossible for them to learn a language which could have taught them to speak of what was in their or others' hearts. The words of their souls were the syllables of popular songs.
Richard WrightTag: materialism superficiality american-culture acquisition-culture
Curiously enough, it seems that at times the spiritual side prevails, and then the materialistic side—in wave-like motions following each other. ...At one time the full flood of materialistic ideas prevails, and everything in this life—prosperity, the education which procures more pleasures, more food—will become glorious at first and then that will degrade and degenerate. Along with the prosperity will rise to white heat all the inborn jealousies and hatreds of the human race. Competition and merciless cruelty will be the watchword of the day. To quote a very commonplace and not very elegant English proverb, "Everyone for himself, and the devil take the hindmost", becomes the motto of the day. Then people think that the whole scheme of life is a failure. And the world would be destroyed had not spirituality come to the rescue and lent a helping hand to the sinking world. Then the world gets new hope and finds a new basis for a new building, and another wave of spirituality comes, which in time again declines. As a rule, spirituality brings a class of men who lay exclusive claim to the special powers of the world. The immediate effect of this is a reaction towards materialism, which opens the door to scores of exclusive claims, until the time comes when not only all the spiritual powers of the race, but all its material powers and privileges are centered in the hands of a very few; and these few, standing on the necks of the masses of the people, want to rule them. Then society has to help itself, and materialism comes to the rescue.
Swami VivekanandaTag: spirituality materialism 1897 cycles
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